UCL Oculus and Octagon Gallery wins Camden Quality Award

Last week UCL’s Oculus and Octagon Gallery
won an award in the Best Small Development category in the Camden Business Awards.

These highly competitive awards are selected in
recognition of quality design in the Camden borough. Previous award winners
include the Roundhouse, St Pancras Station, Swiss Cottage Central Library and
the restoration of Russell Square Gardens.

The transformed Oculus and Octagon
Gallery features new
cases, animations and interactive screens to display treasures from UCL's
museums collections to the
general public. The space also holds artist John Flaxman's plaster study St
Michael Overcoming Satan standing on an impressive glass plinth. The Oculus
provides a view from the ground floor to the impressive interior of the iconic
Wilkins dome. This has been beneficial for students, staff and visitors to the
university.

Congratulations and thank you to all of our staff who made this project a success in the heart of
UCL’s Bloomsbury estate. To
learn more about the awards click here
and to view a UCL video on the project click here.